Editorial Notes

TIm; Mi-kinley bilí wlll bc a blessing to he niasses of the American peoplc. The Mills bill woulil have been a curse. Arcbie Wilkinson is comlnij'down from Mie west part of the county with a roaorily Umi will swtcp the boanU and fli-ct liim asone of the next circuit court oiimiis.-ioners. A vote for Mr. Gorman for Congres meaiis a vote for freo wheat. Do yon want w heat an y cheaper tlian it is my 'armer friend ? By the year 1900 our populution will have grown so tbat under the wlse provisions of the tariíl' law just passed the íírlculturul producís of this country will barely suffice to supply the home market. The London Iron and Coal Trades Iieview ?ays tbat the McKinley bill "is fruuu'd iu complete deflance of the wishes and Interests of foreign countries."' That is probably true. The next prosecuting attorney of this couuty will be the pushing, progresslve and hustling younic lawyer of Manchester, A. F. Freeman. Just watch the majoritits that will be rolled up for liim. Wm. J. Clark has but one arm. The other he left down south. liotwithstauding ttiat lact he can use the rernaining arm to write the records in the register of deeds ofllce. If you don't believe it just give liitn a trial. Capt. H. S. Boutelle, of Ypsilantf, would be a terror to evil doers as sheriff. He is an old soldier, an upright, conscientious gentleman, and in every way worthy the support and votes of the people of this county. Jiminie's mouth, like Stearn's war record, is against lian. He has a lliient uummaiid of billingsgate and blnckguardism, and in trying to palni it off on the people of this district as an argument for his own electiou to congres?. It is ettim ited that the deleating of the meat inspection bill eftected the Armours and other Chicago butehers over $1,000,000 per year. Why should they not be lnterested in killing It? But our own farmers and butchers wanted the bill. If you want a marriage license after J;id. lst, next, you will have to get it of Mr. Uieterle. Mr. Brown is anice,pleasant, genial fellow, but the people have concluded lo let a republican run the county cleik's office for the next two years. The finalices of this county wiil be handled just as safely, interest tigured just as iccur.itely, and the duties of the office of county treasurer as promptly attended toatter Jan. lst, next, by Edward Gorman, as thcy ever wie by any of his predtcesors. Tlie republican county ticket is esseutlally a soldier's ticket. O.ipt. Boutelle, Kiiwan! Gormio, Wüliain J. Clark and Dr. Breukey are all oltl soldiera and G. AR. men. Tlien forCjuress C ipt. Allen, aud for tlie legislature Joscph T. Jacobs add two more to tlie ranks. Idaho joins the republicua phalanx by electinji republican stüte officials by nearly 2,1)00 majority. ■ republican member of conjfresp, 44 out of 54 mmnbers of the lerislature, thus securing two United Statt;s senators to tlie republicana. The new States bejjin life In tlic; Union arljfht. John W. li..:iincit doesn't want ti be elected circuit court Com'üilHlBviVJ1 icount of its matting P. McKurnan f eel so badly to be beuten. But J hn will have to forego his own feellnga tliis fall, for tlie conviclion is in ttie very air tlmt tliere is to be a complete change iu old Wushtenaw lliis fall. Republicau officials will be elccted all along the line. Mr. Turner, the ropublfCan caudidate for governor, has been groísly and indeccntly assailed by a forme r dlscharjred employé of the state school for tbe blind at Lmsing, of wliich Mr. Turner was a trustee. A long string of affidavits were printed in the Detroit Free Press, but so far as any sane man could aseerlain nothiug was proven except tint a brick yard in which Mr. Turner held stock had sold brlck to the state for erecting the school building - and that was criminal you know. The uwirtion that Mr. Turner was in debt lo the state vvben he went out of office, has been thoroug'hly disprovcd, as the state was in debt to him. Come on with your mud machine, Mr. Piee Press, you always did have the faculty of getting 3unk iu the pit you digged for otliers. Tbcre is a trumped-up charge made by the enemies of the republican party that they are increasing and piling on the taxc?. To show the absurdity of it we challenge the democracy to polntout one public measure In the interest of the country put upon the statute-books during the twe've years in which they have controlled the House. Even when they had the Senatc and House, they did nothing. In all that timo they reduced the revenue Ies3 than $7,000,000. While, od the other hand the republican party in congress, during the eleven years of their control have wiped from the statute books $302,000,000 of annual taxation, and by the tariff bill just passed $00,000,000 more is rolled away. Tliis shows the ditlierence between a party which has methods and a great public policy, and one organized and run simply to obstruct, to threaten, to madly resist all public measures and delay leyislation. The hot-headed individual who runs the Hausfreund has torn himself and some of his friends all to pieces over a mild insinuation in the Courier of two weeks ago that one of the speakers at the Germán Day celebration infused some democratie doctrine in his speech on that occasion. Mr. Seekeigh denies it, and as he was the one referred to the denial is given for what itis worth. The Coirikr made no assertlon that politics had anything to do with the management of Germán Day in any way, as the Hausfiend tries to make out; but a Germán who was there, a man who is just as good a Germán as Mr. tíkyeliigh, just as good a citizen, just as honorable and upright a man any day iu the week, but who is perhaps not as pretty a man as Mr. Scekeye, tells us that hls speech had a strong politlcal tinge, ar.d any one who knows Mr. Suckey knows that it was not a republican tinge. This red-he;. ded ante-bclhini Italian-Hebrew.with-anirchist-tendencies duelist editor who dips his pen in frore on the slightest provocat'on and spatterj it all over liis columns In great glarlng chunks, endeuvors to make a mountain out of a molehill in this matter. lie better wlpe olí his chin and pull himself down to earth again. If he was not gullty what under the canopy Is he be!lowing a bout?